Controversial posts
One of the accounts run by Kenyon was terminated by social media platform X in 2024. It is not known why Kenyon’s X account was deleted, but campaign group Hope Not Hate published a series of messages it says were sent from the handle.
Screenshots taken by Hope Not Hate show Kenyon interacted with Peter Imanuelsen — known as Peter Sweden on X. Imanuelsen has been accused of minimizing, and outright denying, the Holocaust. He has rejected that characterization of his views.
Deleted posts from Kenyon’s account also include calling abortion a “cowardly act of murdering a defenceless baby” and suggesting women falsely claim to have been raped in order to terminate their pregnancies.
The campaign group Searchlight pointed out in 2024, when Kenyon first contested the seat, that he was one of 41 Reform candidates who were friends with Gary Raikes, a former member of the far-right British National Party, on a now-deleted Facebook page.
Reform UK has denied this connection, saying Kenyon had never “spoken or engaged with” Gary Raikes and that when he was made aware of who Raikes was, Kenyon “removed him from his Facebook immediately.”
Broadcaster Carol Vorderman — central to one of Kenyon’s most widely criticized tweets — has demanded he apologize for “disgusting comments” made about her on his former X account. Former Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner accused Kenyon of targeting Vorderman with “misogynistic abuse.”